Hello Everyone,
We’re excited to announce that the latest version of Portworx Operator 25.5.0 is now generally available (GA). This release includes new capabilities and fixes driven by key customer requests and is compatible with Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade.
Key Highlights
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Support for external user‑managed Prometheus for monitoring and Autopilot. This provides a clear way to use a user‑managed Prometheus instead of the Portworx‑managed Prometheus, eliminating conflicts that can occur when two Prometheus deployments are present.
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A new DeleteStrategy for the StorageCluster called UninstallAndDelete on vSphere, AWS, GKE, and Azure. This strategy removes all Portworx components, wipes storage devices, deletes Portworx metadata from KVDB, and removes the associated cloud drives.
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A new ignoreVolumes spec for the StorageCluster delete strategy. By default set to false, it prevents a StorageCluster uninstall if PVCs are present in the cluster for UninstallAndWipe or UninstallAndDelete delete strategy, which helps avoid unintended data loss. This introduces a change in behaviour for uninstall operation and ignoreVolumes need to be set to true if you intend to uninstall while PVCs are still present.
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On OpenShift clusters, the Operator now creates StorageClasses by default(RWX Block) when the HyperConverged custom resource for OpenShift Virtualization is detected. This ensures seamless integration with OpenShift Virtualization, eliminates manual setup steps, and enables users to immediately provision persistent storage for virtual machines.
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